[whatwg] Video with MIME type application/octet-stream

Julian Reschke julian.reschke at gmx.de
Wed Sep 1 07:42:48 PDT 2010


On 01.09.2010 10:12, Philip Jägenstedt wrote:
> ...
> If we start ignoring the Content-Type I expect we would also add
> sniffing so that opening a video served with the wrong (or missing)
> Content-Type still works in a top-level browsing context, as it does for
> images (I think).
> ...

Sniffing in the *absence* of a content type is fine. The interesting 
question is what to do when it's present, but wrong.

Best regards, Julian




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